 So we talked about the don't say gay bill a couple of weeks ago on my program but I wasn't necessarily sure if Rhonda Santis would endorse it. I had a feeling that he would in the event it made it to his desk and Yeah, he's basically tassily suggesting that it is good. He's signaling support for it So this is from NBC News Florida Governor Rhonda Santis voiced his support for a bill that would prohibit the discussion of sexual orientation and gender Identity in the state's primary schools. So just pause for a moment right there were one sentence in Can anyone think of the number of ways that this can go horribly wrong? if you are a teacher and You accidentally happen to bring up your partner who's the same-sex partner. Does that qualify here? If a student on their own accord brings up that they have same-sex parents and then the teacher responds to that and Acknowledges it in any way shape or form Are they gonna be you know violating this law? This can go wrong in a billion different ways. That's just the more Unforeseen consequences of this bill the immediate consequence of a bill like this is that it's harmful to LGBTQ plus youth because if you are Not able to access Information or education with respect to LGBTQ plus issues the suicide rate is higher for you if you're younger I mean young LGBTQ plus people are incredibly vulnerable So this will kill LGBTQ plus kids if this has passed and that's not hyperbole But they don't care they don't care at all as by reporters at a Miami event Monday He said it was entirely inappropriate for teachers to be having conversations with students about gender identity Setting instances of them telling children don't worry. Don't pick your gender yet And also hiding classroom lessons from parents Schools need to be teaching kids to read to write DeSantis said they need to teach them science History do they though because you'll complain about that too if you teach them science That's bad if you teach them history, then you're gonna say that that's critical race theory So are you sure about that around DeSantis? Is there anything that's acceptable for you? We need more civics and understanding of the US Constitution. What makes our country unique all those basic stuff Yeah, maybe we should be teaching fucking grammar to Ron The larger issue with all of this is parents must have a seat at the table when it comes to what's going on in their schools He added although DeSantis stopped short of commitment to sign the bill into law It was the first time the Republican governor signaled his support for the measure since it was proposed by the state's House of Representatives last month Echoing DeSantis Proponents of the parental rights and education bill dubbed by critics as the don't say gay bill Argued that discussions about LGBTQ issues are not age-appropriate for students So I just what is the expectations of these people do they think that? You know your kids gonna get to third grade and they're gonna teach them how to be gay Is that literally what what they think is happening here? you know, do they believe that if we just hide the existence of Trans identities and gay people away from children that they just won't be gay or trans because it doesn't work that way But I think that they think it works that way I think that they still are you know under the ignorant assumption that you can choose to be gay or trans When that's not something that you choose and if you could choose it who would want to choose to be a marginalized Minority in the United States of America, especially in a red state like Florida where they fucking hate you Who would choose that? So, I mean this is extremely stupid. It's policy that is deadly But the reason why the GOP continues to use LGBTQ plus kids as political footballs Is because they don't have anything else to offer, right? They can't deliver when it comes to you know the economy for working-class people So they say well look people in America still hate gays and trans people So, you know, let's just fucking fuck over the kids under the guise of protecting children LOL and then that will be you know us giving red meat to the base. It's it's truly sickening. It's gross Now Biden's administration had apparently Seen that the Santa signal support and so Biden is saying that he's gonna he's gonna fight this How are you gonna fight this Biden? What are you gonna do? I mean are you are you gonna get mansion and cinema's permission to pass a bill? You're gonna get rid of the filibuster. What are you gonna do? You're not gonna do jack shit We've been seeing laws across the country where they're banning trans children from school sports They are banning or trying to ban gender-affirming care for trans youth and what have you done? So what are you what's different about this? What are you gonna do? You're not gonna do anything because Democrats they're never gonna fight You know, this is a free speech issue, right? If you can't even utter the words gay or trans in school This is a free speech issue now I'm told by people that freedom of speech is a very important issue, but yet I Haven't seen many people talk about this. Have you seen anyone talk about this? Not many people seem to care or even know that this is happening Nobody's talking about this. This is a massive free speech issue they're literally trying to ban mention of the existence of gay people in school and The free speech warriors are fucking silent. Where are they? Isn't this their cup of tea? Well, of course not you see because freedom of speech only in so far as we allow You know the far right to have their freedom of speech But we don't ever want to seem a little bit too woke because then that would be bad And we can't win over the far right or right wingers in general So, you know, we'll shut our mouths when it comes to actual violations of freedom of speech Where the state cracks down on what you can and can't say we'll be silent there And we'll just focus on like Joe Rogan's freedom of speech that 100 millionaire He needs your support when it comes to freedom of speech Not teachers in Florida is the whole situation is frustrating, you know, um Conversations about freedom of speech online and left to circles. They only you know are tailored to discussing whether or not the platforming Person a and b is bad when sure you can you can have these conversations but this is Huge this is like it cuts straight to the core of the issue. This is the government's engaging in censorship and Nobody even cares like what is going on? Is it just because If you talk about gay people in an affirming way, you're seen as too woke I just I want to know what goes through the brains of free speech advocates who constantly Will come out go out of their way to you know condemn attempts to cancel people But then they're completely fucking silent when it comes to major free speech violations like this